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 66 HISTORY OF THE TARLIAMENT. Rev. F. M. Bristol, D.D., Chicago, of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. Jenkin Lloyd-Jones, of the Unitarian Church, Chicago, and Sec- retary of the General Committee on Religious Congresses. Rev. Maurice Phillips, a missionary from India. Prof. M. Valentine, of Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary. Hon. W. T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Washington, D. C. William Pipe, Private Secretary to the Chairman of the General Com- mittee. Dr. Ernest Faber, a veteran missionary from Shanghai, China. Rev. George T. Candlin, a missionary of the English Methodist Church, from Tientsin, China. Rev. Horiuchi Kozaki, President of Doshisha University, Japan. Bishop Cotter, of the Roman Catholic Church, Winona, Minn. Rt. Rev. John J.Keane, D.D., Rector of the Catholic University, Wash- ington, D. C. Mrs. Potter Palmer, President of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition. Mrs. Charles H. Henrotin, Vice-President of the Woman's Branch of the World's Congress Auxiliary. Clarence E. Young, Assistant Secretary World's Congress Auxiliary. Dr. Adolf Brodbeck, Idealist, Hannover, Germany. Hon. John W. Hoyt, LL.D,, Washington, D. C. Rev. George M. Grant, D.D., Principal of Queen's University (Presby- terian) Kingston, Canada. M. de Zmigrodski, Librarian, Cracow, Austria. The first act of this strangely diversified assembly — the representatives of various tribes, kindreds and tongues on the platform, and the densely packed thousands throughout the hall — was an act of common worship to Almighty God. A few voices, sustained by the organ under the touch of Clarence Eddy, led off with the words of the One Hundredth Psalm in the paraphrase of WattS; as retouched by the pen of Wesley: Before Jehovah's awful throne. Ye nations bow with sacred joy ; Know that the Lord is God alone ; He can create, and he destroy. The multitude, catching the strain of the Old Hundredth Psalm Tune, lifted up a mighty voice in the words of Bishop Ken's Doxology — " the Te Deiun of English Christendom," as Dr. Schaff has called it: